Colour Create Challenge 9 - Blue and Lilac

Hi everyone and time for this week's Colour Create Challenge which this week has been set by my lovely DT friend Sharon with the gorgeous colours of lilac and blue and an option ribbons and swirls. Thanks Sharon, I loved your challenge and I love my ribbons so this was perfect as are all the wonderful cards from the rest of the team, all very beautiful and inspirational. There is a wonderful prize on offer this week from Tara to celebrate CC having over 10,000 hits and also because Tara has just celebrated her birthday. There are lots of gorgeous craft items including some Anya's! If you want to be in with a chance of winning the prize then Tara asks that just for this week you don't combine your CC card with any other challenges but if you don't want the prize then combining is fine. Hope you can join in this week.

My card is also a wallet card made from a sheet of lilac A4 card but I didn't photo the inside as I'd already written the message. The image is the gorgeous fairy 'Rosabella' designed by my friend Sandra Dry and is available in her digi stamp shop. I sized her to fit my card, printed her out and she was really lovely to colour with markers. I've added stardust stickles over most of her and then cut her out and mounted with glue gel. The blue background layer is embossed with the branches embossing folder and then sponged with Dusty Concord distress ink. Flower shapes, swirls and scalloped pieces are all cut with the Cricut and sponged with ink on the edges. I added the woodware sentiment, lilac sheer ribbon and gems to finish. Hope you're all having a lovely weekend. TFL. Chris x

Open Tulips

Hi everyone, hope you all had a good weekend and some of the gorgeous weather that we had yesterday, very warm and springlike which brings me onto my card today with spring flowers and violet which makes me think of spring. The image is 'Tulip Bowl' available soon and it's marker coloured and matted on violet bazzil card and attached with dimension tape. The card blank and flowers are cut on the Cricut with the Wild Card and Accent Essentials cartridges. I've embossed the flowers and the circle of blue card under them with CB embossing folders swiss dots and stylished flowers (I think it's called) and the blue embossing which is on Core'dinations card has been sanded on the debossed side. Added the Woodware sentiment, candy dot to the flower centre, doodled dots with a white gel pen and ribbons to finish. Have a good Monday. TFL. Chris x

Biker Love

Hi again, I'm trying to catch up with posting as I had a few days this week without internet. This card is for Papertake Weekly and a great sketch to follow by Dawny P. I really love this layout and the three background panels is a favourite style for me, I haven't used it before with the off centre image panel and really like it. I've used my Sketching Stamper Digi-Stamps image 'Biker Love' and coloured with promarkers. I was trying to get a slick feel for this card and have used gloss black card for the outer panels which I embossed with the CB distressed stripes folder, it doesn't show up too well but I was trying to get the effect of tyres too! The centre panel is dark pearlescent grey punched card. I punched some holes on the left and centre panels near the bottom, tried to add some orange eyelets and failed miserably, just can't get the hang of those things and so I haven't quite got the interest in that area now, ah well, one of these days I'll get the hang of the big bite but I am beginning to wonder if life's too short for me and the hole puncher of doom. I laced in the holes with some black cord added the ace of hearts charm and then threaded the rest of the cord through the grey card and over the edge at the other side for where the die cut letters rest to follow the sentiment strip part of the sketch. Added the orange gem to finish TFL.

Materials:
Image: Sketching Stamper Digi-stamps 'Biker Love'
Colouring: Promarkers in ice grey 2, 3, 4, aegean, royal blue, pastel yellow, gold, black
Card: Gloss black and turquoise A4 card from The Craft Barn. Pearlescent grey punched card, don't know the make I'm afraid.
Embellishment: Cuttlebug distressed stripes embossing folder, hole puncher of doom aka cropodile big bite, black cord from Hobbycraft, Go Create alphabet dies (Craft Barn), ace of hearts charm and orange gem from stash.

Daffodils

Hi everyone, a card today for A spoonfull of sugar where the challenge this week is 'Love is in the air' and for Cute Card Thursday with a challenge of 'Valentine's'. I've used one my new digi-stamps 'Daffodils' which is available at Sketching Stamper Digi-stamps and is one of eight images available from today. The image is marker coloured and mounted on coredinations card mounted on dimension tape. The background layer is yellow coredinations mounted on dimension tape which has been embossed with the CB and hearts folder and then sanded. All the edges are distressed and I've added stickles to the flowers, the ribbon, mini pearls and a yellow heart gem. TFL.

Materaials: Sketching Stamper Digi-stamp 'Daffodils, Promarkers ( in pastel yellow, mustard, gold, lemon, primrose, moss green, pastel yellow, pine, agean), yellow and dark aqual coredinations card, dark aqua canson card. Cuttlebug, hearts embossing folder. Yellow satin ribbon, yellow stickles, yellow heart gem, mini half pearls, edge distresser.

I've been given some fantastic awards this week, thank you so much ladies, they're very much appreciated but I've got myself so muddled with them and I hope you can excuse my not linking up properly, I really am rubbish at this, sorry.
















I was also tagged this week with the sixth folder, sixth photo tag, by Deifen, thank you Dei! The sixth folder contained number templates, not very interesting and so I've gone to the seventh which are garden photographs and this is one taken last year of my day lilies, I love these flowers.

'Watering with love' - the cuttlebug spot challenge

Hi everyone a card today for The Cuttlebug Spot and 'Valentine colour challenge', a valentine card without red or pink. I've used 'Watering with love' Sketching Stamper digi-stamp and coloured with markers, cut out and glazed with glossy accents. The background panel is green coredinations card embossed with the CB hearts folder and sanded. The sentiment stamp is a freebie with this months craft stamper magazine but mine seems to be bent on the bottom edge and I've had to fill in with black liner, this is also coloured with markers. I've doodled a border with the colours used in the image and added the little heart buttons to finish. TFL.

Materials:
Image: Sketching Stamper Digi-stamp 'Watering with love', Craft Stamper Free sentiment stamp
Colouring: Promarkers: Aegean, bright orange, gold, amethyst, warm grey 2, warm grey 3, ice grey 4, black
Embellishment: CB hearts embossing folder, sandpaper, glossy accents, heart buttons, doodling with markers

A spoon full of Sugar Challenge 34

H i everyone and here's my card for A spoon full of sugar challenge 34 which is paper piecing and on which I was absolutely delighted to be asked by the lovely Joanne to be a guest designer this week. I hope you can enter this great challenge and have a look at all the wonderful creations from the DT. I've chosen an Elzybells image, stamped it on white card and then again on SEI paper and paper pieced the baby blanket onto the white card. The image is marker coloured and cut out with a nestabilities circle. I added glitter jewels to the moon, matted on a nestie cut scalloped circle in peach Bazzil card and then added the tiny half pearls to the scallops. The other layers are more of the SEI double sided paper and peach Bazzil. I folded back the bottom right corner of the SEI, stamped the Elzybells sentiment and added a button and bow. The image panel is mounted on dimension tape over a strip of the peach card embossed with a swiss dots cuttlebug folder and everything is layered on a white card blank. TFL.

Materials:
Stamps: Elzybells - wavy little one - baby moon, Versafine Black Onyx for stamping
Colouring: Promarkers
Paper: SEI, Peach Bazzil card
Embellishment: Cosmic Shimmer glitter jewels, tiny half pearls, white button, pink ribbon bow, cuttlebug embossing folder - swiss dots

Back soon,
Chris

Kadoodle Blog Candy!

Hi again everyone, just to let you know that this week the Kadoodle blog candy is my design James and Holly. If you fancy a chance at winning this stamp pop over to the Kadoodle Blog and leave a comment.
Good luck!

Back soon,
Chris

Tweet Day

The challenge on Dutch Dare this week is 'no square edges on your card. I'm also entering this card in the ABC Challenge where the challenge is 'I for Individual' the winner this week will receive a cute stamp and also win a place on the DT.

I've coloured a digital download from Pink Petticoat's 'Too Tweet' set with distress inks, added some stickles and cut out with nestabilities. The white layers are cuttlebug embossed, paper is by Pebbles. I've used a corner rounder punch on all the edges in line with the challenge and added yellow satin bows. TFL.

Back soon,
Chris